Veteran’s Park, Redondo Beach, CA<\/p>\n
I dove as a safety diver with Instructor John’s Open Water class. *<\/strong><\/p>\n In With: 2000 psi This is the second dive of the day.<\/p>\n Pedro, Young Hottie, Green Horn and one of the new students made it out past the surf zone.<\/p>\n I submerged first; everyone else followed except Pedro and John.<\/p>\n We all waited for several minutes.<\/p>\n Finally I saw John dragging Pedro down; John motioned for everyone to follow. <\/p>\n John lead while dragging Pedro, the students followed while I took up the back.<\/p>\n We were 25 feet under. <\/p>\n John kept towing Pedro; some students crawled on the bottom.<\/p>\n John stopped to take a head count and let go of Pedro; Pedro started to swim to the surface.<\/p>\n John motioned to me to take the class while he chased Pedro.<\/p>\n Not knowing where we were, I took the class West and checked their air. <\/p>\n One student was down to 700 psi; Young Hottie was down to 2000 psi and breathing really hard – she later explained that she was trying to make her tank lighter by sucking the air out.<\/p>\n We turned East to head back and surfaced in 15 feet of water.<\/p>\n We all made it ashore; John helped Young Hottie ashore because she was exhausted.<\/p>\n John told me, “If Pedro pulls this shit in Catalina, I’m not certifying him.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Veteran’s Park, Redondo Beach, CA I dove as a safety diver with Instructor John’s Open Water class. * In With: 2000 psi Out With: 1200 psi Max depth: 40 feet Waves: 1-3 feet Visibility: 5-10 feet at best Water Temperature: Cold at 40 feet Total Bottom Time: About 20 minutes *The names of students have […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,19,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=436"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nOut With: 1200 psi
\nMax depth: 40 feet
\nWaves: 1-3 feet
\nVisibility: 5-10 feet at best
\nWater Temperature: Cold at 40 feet
\nTotal Bottom Time: About 20 minutes
\n*The names of students have been changed.<\/strong><\/p>\n